Oh! The Places You'll Work!

Your bed, couch, table, and phone are all training your brain. In this episode, Justin explains why dedicated spaces matter, how your bed can become a cue for either sleep or stimulation, and one simple way to make your environment work for your evening routine instead of against it. 

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Welcome back to Night Shift with Justin Asking how to transform your life one night at a time. We are going to be exploring the idea of location. For example, your bed is not just furniture, your couch is not just a couch, table is not just a table, but every space in your home is training your neighbor's system to expect something. So we discussed before your sleep, your bed should be primarily used for sleep. You want to create a sleep bed connection. But if your bed is where you sleep, scroll, snack, worry, text, watch videos, replay your problems and watch TV, don't be surprised if you have trouble sleeping at night. You trained your bed to mean stimulation, not relaxation. This is why dedicated spaces matter. And tonight I want to cover more than just the sleep bed connection. Because your bed, you should have one main job, which is sleep. And if you want to read, journal, or think about your day, you should do it in a chair. Have a thinking chair or a thinking desk. Make a specific corner for that. And that can become your reflection space. So when you sit down, your brain knows it's time to reflect and journal. If you want to use your phone at night, create a standing phone rule. This is one from Dr. Walker says if you absolutely must use your phone in the bedroom, only use it if you're standing. The second you lay down, you have to put the phone down. If you want to eat, you should do it at a table, kitchen table, dining room table. Don't eat at bed or possible, not in front of a TV. You can do this, of course, also with your workspaces, exercises spaces. And so a lot of times when you sit down to do something, you may be fighting your willpower because there is a space that is programmed for some other kind of activity. If you know every time you sit down at your desk, it's your time to write rather than to scroll or to watch social media, then your brain will more likely write when you need it to. So tonight, your night shift is simple. Pick one space for one activity. If you are doing more than one activity in your bed, pick your bed first. But if you already have conquered and mastered the sleep bed connection, pick another place. I'd go next with a chair for reflection or a corner for reflection if you don't have one of those already. That is my suggestion. But whatever comes to your mind, if there's a specific theme that you are working on, pick a place for that and train your brain to recognize that spot and associate it with the activity you want to reinforce. That's it for tonight's episode of Night Shift. My name is Justin S. King, and I help entrepreneurs find peace tonight, tomorrow, and for the rest of their lives through sleep optimization, emotion regulation, and discovering their purpose. Good night.